Cath Senker

Cath Senker - Author, editor, teacher

With 30 years’ experience in publishing, I have written nearly 170 books for children of all ages, from history, biography, global and social issues to world religions, human geography and environmental topics. I also write for adults. In 2017, I published Stranded in the Six-Day War (see below).

In December 2018, Far From Home, Refugees and Migrants Fleeing War, Persecution and Poverty won the 2018 Educational Writers' Award.

Editor

I edit children's educational, trade and  fiction titles; adult non-fiction and craft books; academic reports and online materials. I currently commission and edit the RLF Consultant Fellow blogs.

Teacher

I am a Student Academic Success Advisor at the University of Sussex Business School, offering academic advice to students in one-to-one and group sessions.

Also, I'm a Royal Literary Fund Consultant Fellow, running writing development workshops for university students. I teach English to refugees and migrants at the Migrant English Project.

Featured Book

Stranded in the Six-Day War

The extraordinary story of the 14 merchant ships trapped in the Suez Canal at the start of the Six-Day War in June 1967.

Listen to a podcast about the story. Watch the Al Jazeera documentary.

This is a brilliantly researched and written account of an almost forgotten incident in the 1967 Middle East war. It's full of tasty nuggets of detail. The war stranded ships that were passing through the Suez Canal, and created a unique community of marooned seafarers. Recommended.

Jeremy Bowen, August 2017 (BBC Middle East editor and author of Six Days: How the 1967 War Shaped the Middle East).

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From my blog

Seminars about Stranded in the Six-Day War

03 Feb 2020
Twice this month, I'll be giving an illustrated talk. It's about the merchant ships that became trapped in the Suez Canal during the Six-Day War in 1967. Photo: Brian McManus University of Brighton I'll be ...
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donated sleeping bags

A weekend with Care4Calais

29 Nov 2019
Just metres away from a roundabout in Calais, a bunch of boys are playing an ad hoc cricket game. Another group warm themselves by a small wood fire – later, they’ll cook a meal on ...
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Screen shot of 99% Invisible podcast

The Cinderella stamps

31 Oct 2019
When US philatelist Eric Carlson found an unusual stamp on EBay, he 'stumbled upon the remnants of a forgotten bit of world history, about a stranded convoy that built a community at the center of ...
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